Majdal Shams a Thorn in the Occupation’s Eye and Al Mukawama’s Upper Hand in Facing the Enemy

Nasser Kandil

Albinaa’ Newspaper July 29, 2024.

If the missile hitting the town of Majdal Shams in the Arab Syrian occupied Golan was deliberate, logic says that the only concerned is the occupying entity, because Hezbollah has nothing but reasons to love this Arab Syrian town of resistance, which has rejected the citizenship of the occupying entity and enlistment in its army. She has resisted, continues to resist, and all her history is one of resistance, with the majority her sons supportive of their Syrian nation, its choice of Al Mukawamaand
Al Sayyed, while the occupation has nothing but reasons to loathe Majdal Shams, which was and continues to be a thorn in its eye. Consequently, if Hezbollah says the he is sad, we believe him, and if the occupation states that it is going to escalation to avenge those who fell in Majdal Shams, we understand that the entity is lying.
Hezbollah who stopped the execution of the infiltrator Akel Hashem because of the presence of civilians in the vicinity, and who has not targeted for over 10 months of war a single civilian in the entity’s settlements, though he does not recognize that there are civilians among the settlers, cannot be accused of targeting Arab civilians in a city with such inveterate and venerable history of resistance. By contrast, the entire history of the occupation’s military is based on criminality, with its leaders’ biographies recounting tales of their responsibility for explosions amid Jewish groups to drive them to immigrate to Palestine, and the entity’s police investigations which revealed that its military was behind the killing of settlers in the Gaza envelope through shells from tanks, machine guns, and Apache helicopters the day of Al Aqsa Deluge, and the killing of civilians, women and children in Gaza beyond all war crime descriptions. If the hit was due to an error, logic says that the only source for the missile is the occupying entity and it military, because Hezbollah, during the 10 months of war, has only launched missiles and drones which have not missed their targets. Hezbollah, subjects all its launches to exceptional and scrupulous attention and surveillance to ensure the no civilian is hit, done to avoid losing the public opinion war in the West. Hezbollah confines strikes to gatherings of soldiers, command posts, iron dome, and artillery positions, which have not missed by a single meter. So how can Hezbollah miss by several kilometers,with the missile reaching by mistake the border between the occupied and the liberated Golan? As for the occupation’s army, it declared that it killed 16 of its soldiers in error in Gaza, and killed its hostages in error. If the error was not the result of some confusion in aiming, then the only source of error is the air defense missiles which, when they miss air targets they were intended to pursue, could fall to the ground with no ability for their control they. Over the past 2 weeks, Al Mukawamadid not launch any missile against the occupation’s jets,while the occupation’s military launched tens of missiles from its iron domes to intercept Al Mukawama’s missiles and drones, and over 10 months acknowledged, on 10 occasions, that iron dome missiles have hit civilian targets in its cities and settlements.
If the denial serves to evade responsibility for the incident or for the manipulation of the incident and its exploitation, reason dictates that the attributes of prevarication, exploitation, and denial to evade responsibility is applicable to the entity and not to Hezbollah, because Hezbollah’s history attests to taking responsibility for the consequences of actions and apologizing, and if an error is committed, it is admitted, apologized for, and responsibility is assumed for it. The days of the July 2006 war when Hezbollah did not possess precision missiles and hit an Arab home in Acre, Hezbollah apologized and decided not to aim at all areas in the 48 occupied territory which have Palestinian Arabs in them, while the theory of denial has accompanied the occupation’s army in all operations which it wants to deny responsibility for or which it desires to exploit, and here it is beginning to exploit this incident.
The entity, leaders and military, know full well that a large scale war is beyond its capacity, even if America joined it in battle. What it wants is exploiting the incident, to create an escalation round coordinated with the American, for negotiation purposes, and is the outcome of Netanyahu’s visit to Washington. Far from the fraudulent war speech delivered by Netanyahu in front of the Congress, war is well beyond the American Israeli alliance capacity, whereas the negotiations have imposed a division of roles. America received from Netanyahu negotiation terms designed in any agreement about Gaza to render hollow Al Mukawama’ victory and void it of any semblance of a clear victory, and to pollute and disrupt it to prevent any investment in it. They are also designed to open the door for manipulation of the victory returns of AlMukawama, such as seeking to link complete withdrawal with the deployment of Arab and international forces over some points in Gaza, the deportation of the liberated imprisoned leaders from the West Bank, and the establishment of cantons outside of Al Mukawama’s control in Gaza after the war ends.
To the extent that these demands require for negotiations to be conducted on a hot tin roof, separating the course of negotiations on Gaza from Al Mukawama’s endeavor to impose the withdrawal of American forces from Syria and Iraq and crippling the Turkish-Syrian rapprochement, is an American interest requiring an Israeli escalation to be put on the table, with full awareness by the Israeli of the organic interconnection between his strategic security and the continued presence of the American occupation in Syria and Iraqand blockageof the Syrian-Turkish rapprochement.
Isn’t the incident, either fabricated or exploited to create escalation,what Russian President Vladimir Putin meant by his talk, deliberately made in the presence of the pressduring his reception of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, about the threats of escalation in the region, Syria included,prior to the Majdal Shams incident?